Dear Mr. Ziebenmann!

Modern Ukrainian language contains 33 letters. They are:

Unicode name    T2A name      Explanation
____________    ________      ___________

afii10017       \CYRA         Cyrillic capital letter a
afii10065       \cyra         Cyrillic small letter a

afii10018       \CYRB         Cyrillic capital letter be
afii10066       \cyrb         Cyrillic small letter be

afii10019       \CYRV         Cyrillic capital letter ve
afii10067       \cyrv         Cyrillic small letter ve

afii10020       \CYRG         Cyrillic capital letter ghe
afii10068       \cyrg         Cyrillic small letter ghe

afii10050       \CYRGUP       Cyrillic capital letter ghe with upturn
afii10098       \cyrgup       Cyrillic small letter ghe with upturn

afii10021       \CYRD         Cyrillic capital letter de
afii10069       \cyrd         Cyrillic small letter de

afii10022       \CYRE         Cyrillic capital letter ie
afii10070       \cyre         Cyrillic small letter ie

afii10053       \CYRIE        Cyrillic capital letter ukrainian ie
afii10101       \cyrie        Cyrillic small letter ukrainian ie

afii10024       \CYRZH        Cyrillic capital letter zhe
afii10072       \cyrzh        Cyrillic small letter zhe

afii10025       \CYRZ         Cyrillic capital letter ze
afii10073       \cyrz         Cyrillic small letter ze

afii10026       \CYRI         Cyrillic capital letter i
afii10074       \cyri         Cyrillic small letter i

afii10055       \CYRII        Cyrillic capital letter ukrainian i
afii10103       \cyrii        Cyrillic small letter ukrainian i

afii10056       \CYRYI        Cyrillic capital letter yi
afii10104       \cyryi        Cyrillic small letter yi

afii10027       \CYRISHRT     Cyrillic capital letter short i
afii10075       \cyrishrt     Cyrillic small letter short i

afii10028       \CYRK         Cyrillic capital letter ka
afii10076       \cyrk         Cyrillic small letter ka

afii10029       \CYRL         Cyrillic capital letter el
afii10077       \cyrl         Cyrillic small letter el

afii10030       \CYRM         Cyrillic capital letter em
afii10078       \cyrm         Cyrillic small letter em

afii10031       \CYRN         Cyrillic capital letter en
afii10079       \cyrn         Cyrillic small letter en

afii10032       \CYRO         Cyrillic capital letter o
afii10080       \cyro         Cyrillic small letter o

afii10033       \CYRP         Cyrillic capital letter pe
afii10081       \cyrp         Cyrillic small letter pe

afii10034       \CYRR         Cyrillic capital letter er
afii10082       \cyrr         Cyrillic small letter er

afii10035       \CYRS         Cyrillic capital letter es
afii10083       \cyrs         Cyrillic small letter es

afii10036       \CYRT         Cyrillic capital letter te
afii10084       \cyrt         Cyrillic small letter te

afii10037       \CYRU         Cyrillic capital letter u
afii10085       \cyru         Cyrillic small letter u

afii10038       \CYRF         Cyrillic capital letter ef
afii10086       \cyrf         Cyrillic small letter ef

afii10039       \CYRH         Cyrillic capital letter ha
afii10087       \cyrh         Cyrillic small letter ha

afii10040       \CYRC         Cyrillic capital letter tse
afii10088       \cyrc         Cyrillic small letter tse

afii10041       \CYRCH        Cyrillic capital letter che
afii10089       \cyrch        Cyrillic small letter che

afii10042       \CYRSH        Cyrillic capital letter sha
afii10090       \cyrsh        Cyrillic small letter sha

afii10043       \CYRSHCH      Cyrillic capital letter shcha
afii10091       \cyrshch      Cyrillic small letter shcha

afii10048       \CYRYU        Cyrillic capital letter yu
afii10096       \cyryu        Cyrillic small letter yu

afii10049       \CYRYA        Cyrillic capital letter ya
afii10097       \cyrya        Cyrillic small letter ya

afii10046       \CYRSFTSN     Cyrillic capital letter soft sign
afii10094       \cyrsftsn     Cyrillic small letter soft sign


A letter ghe with upturn has very interesting history. In 1928,
Ukrainian government approved rules of Ukrainian orthography.
According to these rules the alphabet contained a letter
ghe with upturn. In the second half of 30th, Stalin decided to
simplify Ukrainian language and to bring it nearer to Russian.
In particular, a letter ghe with upturn was excluded from the
alphabet.

But Ukrainians, who lived abroad, continued to use rules of 1928.
Now I hold in my hands a book by Ivan Dzyuba "Internationalism
or Russification", which was published in Canada in Ukrainian in
1968. It uses a letter ghe with upturn. Probably, your Ukrainian
translation of the Holy Bible is printed in Canada or some other
Western country.

After obtaining independence in 1991, Ukrainian government returned
to the rules of 1928. In particular, the letter ghe with upturn
is present in the alphabet. I use it in my mathematical papers.

As you can see from the alphabet, Ukrainian language does not
contain hard sign. An ordinary apostrophe (') is widely used
instead.

With best regards,
                    Anatoliy A. Malyarenko.